6 Calendar Management Tips to Skyrocket Your Productivity in 2018

Are you looking to pick up your pace in the back half of 2018? These 6 calendar managment tips will help you manage your time better and seriously boost your productivity!

Do you need calendar management tips?

Time flies when you’re unproductive. You may be busy doing stuff all day long, but you can’t seem to get anything done.

You may be the time who starts a project and can’t finish it for lack of time.

Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA said that we should plan our time “into 10-minute units, and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.” You may not have to get that extreme to cut down on wasted time.

Here are 6 tips to help you get the most out of your personal calendar.

1. Block Out Your Most Productive Time

Studies have shown that employees tend to be more productive between 9 am and 12 pm. After that, productivity drops.

Your productivity depends on what you do in those three hours, so make sure you schedule the time to focus on your most important work.

If you fill it up with endless meetings and emails, you won’t get to what’s important to move forward.

Use the Big Rock Method

When you’re planning your day or week, you can use the Big Rock method. Steven Covey came up with this method. This categorizes your priorities into different areas.

Sand – Small priorities like email, and menial tasks. You probably have a lot of these.

Pebbles – Fall in between the menial tasks and critical projects.

Big Rocks – You take the most important things that are most important. They can be relationships, health & fitness, projects or meetings.

If you were to take a glass jar and fill it up with sand, you wouldn’t have room for much else. That’s how most people approach the day. They fill up their days with sand and they never get to the big rocks.